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AP, NBC Ask: Time to Publicly Shame the Obese, Let Smokers Die?
Big Journalism ^ | January 26, 2013 | John Nolte

Posted on 01/26/2013 6:18:04 PM PST by Bratch

Biases upfront: I'm a 46 year-old health nut obsessed with exercise and eating right. I don’t smoke or drink, and there are supermodels who worry less about their weight. However, I do admire those who don't live like that; who might not live as long as I do, but will probably enjoy their overall quality of life more than my somewhat Spartan one.

Oh, and I also realize that this is America. And if people want to pursue happiness through a double cheeseburger and a pack of Newports, any joyless, left-wing bossy-pants who has a problem with that can go mind their own g***amned business.

But they're not going to.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fascists; liberalfascism; nannystate; nietzsche; obamacare; obesity; pufflist
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To: Bratch
not to mention, the slow but inexorable push to legalize and glamorize drug use.
Paul McCartney comes to mind. A strict vegan who smokes more marijuana than Cheech and Chong, Bob Marley, and Rick James could ever handle. Let's see, eating meat, fish or dairy, baaaad, but inhaling fumes that's at least as dangerous as tobacco smoke, gooood. Am I missing something here?
21 posted on 01/26/2013 6:59:42 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: tallyhoe

But shouldn’t you treat your body, a gift from God, as though it were a sacred gift? You can’t control the uncontrollable, but you can control what goes in your body.


22 posted on 01/26/2013 7:01:08 PM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: Bratch

...........”But because they don’t smoke between shots of Tequila at club “Thin, Rich, Shallow, Mean, and Stupid,” run out for Cheddar Melts between one-night stands, and want to believe chic equals humanity and who needs God when you look great in a little black dress — they’re coming for the rest of us. “..................

Spot on.


23 posted on 01/26/2013 7:02:05 PM PST by Girlene
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To: SandRat

Where in the Hell did you get that idea? I’m beyond overweight, but my demeanor and size keeps people from opining about my weight where I can hear them, but I know that they’re doing it behind my back and some of it gets back to me. Big women, on the other hand, except for the most masculine or tough, get comments all the time about their size, much of it very unflattering if not vile.


24 posted on 01/26/2013 7:03:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

True, but it’s a start.


25 posted on 01/26/2013 7:06:56 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Bratch

26 posted on 01/26/2013 7:12:14 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Impala64ssa

To be totally fair to the pot heads of America, marijuana smoke is typically partaken of far more sparingly than tobacco smoke.


27 posted on 01/26/2013 7:13:42 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

A start so far out in left field it is beyond the stadium parking lot.


28 posted on 01/26/2013 7:14:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Bratch

Oh goodie. More people for the American lefties to harm and murder. They never get enough innocent blood. Obamacare is like hitting the lottery for these people of evil. I can not imagine living while hating human life like these people. How could anyone live with such a cold, dead heart...soulless?

How far will they travel into genocide? Is there any way to stop them? After all these years of struggle, we have not been able to stop them from the mass murder of unborn babies.

I fear we will not be able to put a dent in the murder dreamed up by this federal death committee and their globalist pals through the political process. They are so active and committed to the goal of mass murder and now they have total power and authority to do it. They have some many new avenues of murder to follow with the power of Federal healthcare.


29 posted on 01/26/2013 7:30:36 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Hey! As long as it’s not a golf course parking lot! rofl!
Have a great evening!


30 posted on 01/26/2013 7:35:49 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Bratch
Let Smokers Die? barry too?
31 posted on 01/26/2013 8:33:19 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Bratch

Hey, these guys would say the same about AIDS victims, right?


32 posted on 01/26/2013 8:33:39 PM PST by GOPJ ( Do murder laws control murders?..freeper Red Badger Let's try Criminal control - Fr:MadMax)
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To: Bratch

The left wants to shame the obese? Have they looked at their voting base?


33 posted on 01/26/2013 8:40:20 PM PST by Figment
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To: Persevero
We need to shame active homosexuals, too. They have way way higher STD rates, not to mention cancers and AIDS. Also, the promiscuous.

Also, the paedophilia. While the drive by media tries to cover it up; e.g., Jesse Dirkhising. The frequency of this pederasty is so great that one can wonder if it is a form of homosexual reproduction.

34 posted on 01/26/2013 8:42:56 PM PST by Stepan12
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Most commercial dieting programs (and they generally work pretty well today, to their credit)”

A good business to get into. No one ever went broke selling food to fat people


35 posted on 01/26/2013 9:11:47 PM PST by Figment
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To: Bratch
AP, NBC Ask: Time to Publicly Shame the Obese, Let Smokers Die?...on the other hand, a physician in the audience at one of the National Review Instutute sessions on C-Span today told of a 450 pound patient of his who told him to go "F - myself" because the doctor had tried to get the patient to follow some measures to improve his health - the patient said if he did that he'd lose his Social Security Disability coverage - in some cases it might be quite proper to require recipients to follow health guidelines - or lose their benefits......
36 posted on 01/26/2013 9:14:18 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Figment

Some concentrate on selling foods, like Jenny Craig and Seattle Sutton. Others concentrate more on planning, like Weight Watchers. (There are officially rated Weight Watchers foods sold through supermarkets, but those have become less important now that WW has opened up their formulas, to the point one can mash in the label nutrition data to an app and get the points towards daily quota.)


37 posted on 01/26/2013 9:17:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

I figured this out about the carpet glue: we aren’t dying fast enough for them (some of us are in our 70s and healthy as horses; much healthier than our non-smoking relatives, for example) and it’s threatening their “statistics” - you know, the ones that call every smoker’s death a “smoking-related death”, whether they were run over by a bus, fell off a building, got melanoma, drowned in the ocean, or whatever. So they’re trying to kill us with carpet glue. I’m not kidding, either.


38 posted on 01/26/2013 9:42:42 PM PST by CatDancer (Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. 2 Cor.3:17)
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To: Bratch

I’d like to see what happens to these pencil d!ck liberals when they get all jacked up in a fat black woman’s face. LOL

They will only bully fat white people. They are not going to harass anyone who would take their lights out and call them a raaaaacis.


39 posted on 01/26/2013 9:46:28 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Bratch

Hmmm..... Public shaming campaigns against fat people?

Uhhhhh, aren’t you the same prisses so invested in so called antibullying.

Real good there slick. Publicly humiliate people who May already suffer from esteem issues as they measure themselves in the mirror everyday .

No, no. You go about doing your lords work, acting all holier than thou or sow, as you seeit.

See with a strong personality and someone whoops comfortable in their own skin you become the object of derision and ridicule for your petty inhumanity.

To the weaker spirit and emotional basket case you become the fuse, self lighting and agrandizing, that sparks the explosion inside, causing that person to take their life, as they don’t feel in control of their and now are powerless to stop you from hurting them.

Yer a real saint there jackass and I’m pretty good at finding fault with boils like you and using the right tool to excise you as so much putrid pass.


40 posted on 01/26/2013 9:49:18 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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